derogatory

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A Milwaukee firefighter was fired and a department paramedic resigned Monday over accusations that they shot what department officials described as a derogatory video at a city firehouse and posted it on YouTube.

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  1. adjective Disparaging; belittling: a derogatory comment.
  2. adjective Tending to detract or diminish.

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  • A Milwaukee firefighter was fired and a department paramedic resigned Monday over accusations that they shot what department officials described as a derogatory video at a city firehouse and posted it on YouTube. —  EMSResponder.com: Top EMS News
  • I mainly heard it used by white politicians, though the controversy surrounding the Oakland school district's attempt to teach it as a foreign language was precisely because the black communities in the area DID consider it racist, derogatory, and insulting. —  Techdirt
  • Opinions that are derogatory, attack other users, offer unsubstantiated facts or are offensive in nature will be removed as defined by the —  WISH TV
  • We reserve the right to delete inane, derogatory, anti-Semitic, anti-Arab, off-topic, factually challenged or otherwise rude comments. —  BBSNews ATOM 0.3 Newsreader Feed
  • It's not derogatory, the Wii is a great machine with lots of bells and whistles and this makes it feel (to me) to be more toy-like. —  GoNintendo.com Podcast
 

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  1. = Old French derogatoire, Frenchdérogatoire = Spanish Portuguese Italian derogatorio, from Late Latin derogatorius, from Latin derogare: see derogate, v.
 

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/dəˈrɑgətəri/
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